It does not appear that Facebook data was stored on Huawei servers, only directly on devices, Facebook said. Through legal agreements and Facebook-supplied code, these manufacturers could directly access Facebook data so that their customers could more seamlessly perform tasks such as syncing their contacts or accessing their message histories on devices ranging from smartphones to smart televisions. Facebook also stressed that many of the 60 device makers — which it did not name in full — didn’t store the data on their own servers. The social giant quietly began unwinding the program in April, but it said it had no indication any Facebook data had been misused. A spokesman for the FTC has declined to indicate if it is investigating Facebook’s arrangements with device makers.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2018 23:11 UTC